Computer Forensics | Cell Phone Forensics

A brief overview of current topics in digital forensics and related subjects

Blackberry backups are not as secure as RIM would have you believe

As with the iPhone, it turns out that Blackberry’s weak point is in the way that local backups are stored.  While it’s been known that you can discover some information about an iPhone simply by using iTunes to make a backup, Blackberry has an air of tight security about them, as their devices first propagated [...]

Computer Forensic Evidence

There are a few key steps to make sure evidence located on a computer’s hard drive stands up to a challenge in court. The first thing that a computer forensics expert will look at is an indication that the hard drive image is forensically sound.  If the image was preserved in EnCase’s E01 format, an [...]

T-Mobile’s HTC G2 almost rooted

T-Mobile’s latest handset offering, the Google-branded G2, is proving to be more difficult to root than other Android devices.  The G2, which is the first T-mobile phone to fully take advantage of their HSPA+ network, was expected to be an important step forward for T-Mobile’s Android lineup, which lacks the splash of Verizon’s Droid X [...]